Mail - add recipient from address book?

I may be missing something obvious, but how do I add a recipient in Mail under Lion?
If I start typing a name or address it will autocomplete, but I cannot find the button that will take me into address book to look through my contacts.
Is it just me?
TIA.

Richard M. Paige wrote:
I could not, however, drag the Address Button from the main mail screen to the composition screen as suggested by IanB, whether in FSM or not, whether whilst customising or not. When customising it simply went up in a puff of smoke, and when not customing, it simply would not move.
That should work, provided you are trying to customize the toolbar in the message composer and not the message viewer.
You have to move the tool you want to add to that little rectangle next to the tools already in the toolbar.
Leroy's right though. Doesn't work in full-screen mode.

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